UN Hyatt Adds Corp. Amenities

With a reputation built solidly on hosting small corporate meetings, the 427-room U.N. Plaza-Park Hyatt Hotel is working even harder to increase that market share by introducing new equipment and services.

"Corporate business at the hotel historically has been strong, with fully 65 percent of our annual bookings being business travel," said director of sales and marketing Joseph Phillips.

The hotel's corporate meetings volume accounts for some 20,000 room nights annually. "To maintain that strong showing and also to increase it, we've introduced several new business services within the past six to eight months," he said.

New amenities include voicemail in all guest rooms and free limo service from the hotel-located at 44th Street and First Avenue-to the financial district and the garment district.

The hotel also has installed VCRs, dual telephone lines, and fax and computer hookups. The hotel's business center provides photocopy services, fax machines, computers, typewriters, bilingual secretaries, messengers, translators and equipment rentals.

Future plans call for new business rooms, which will include larger desks and fax machines. A number of rooms will be equipped with PCs. The rooms, priced at about $270 a night, are slated for fall 1998. Each of the hotel's six meeting rooms, equipped with audivisual systems and cable TV, can accommodate between 10 and 200.

The corporate package is priced at $270 for single or double rooms from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 and $290 between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31.